Word: chic
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DIED. ACHILLE MARAMOTTI, 78, postwar Italian fashion designer who in 1951 brought women, many of whom had been reliant on dressmakers, ready-made but chic styles with his Max Mara company, which he built into a business with estimated annual sales of $1 billion; in Albinea, Italy...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...small car selling on sex appeal? Call it the return of pipsqueak chic. Small cars were supposed to have been bullied off the road by now, and to some extent they have been, with sales falling over the past few years as Americans traded up to SUVs and roomier, performance-enhanced sedans and minivans. With gas prices up nearly 70% since 2002, however, and a crackdown on tailpipe emissions looming in California, automakers are preparing a blitz of downsized models, from hatchbacks to wagons and minivans; even a pint-size Jeep is in the works. "There...
...reach our goals each day," says Espen Prestbakmo, a trip leader in Norway. Choose from a variety of sites: Alaska for the wildlife (Alaska's Trails and Tails, tel: [1-888] 300 6874; www.dogsledtours.com); Greenland for the Inuit culture (Ilulissat Travel, tel: [299] 94 43 00; www.ilulissattravel.gl); and for chic ice hotels and easy access, Norway (Undervegs, tel: [47] 98 00 1213; www.undervegs.no) and Sweden (Axehandle Mountain, tel: [46] 70 688 7290; www.axehandle.nu). And if dog-powered sports leave you panting like a husky, bow out and watch Alaska's annual Iditarod race in March...
...sabi in the home, according to Lawrence, is "flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind." Although at first glance it may seem a bit shabby chic, a style that cultivates a worn patina, it differs in philosophy, asking that we "set aside our judgments and our longing for perfection" and concentrate instead on "the beauty of things as they are." It celebrates the tiny flaws that make everything--your mismatched kitchen chairs, a worn teapot...